Sen. Bernie Sanders pulled past former Vice President Joe Biden among Democratic presidential candidates, according to a new survey released Monday.
The Emerson College Poll showed Sanders, who has been trailing Biden in most surveys, leading the former veep by 29% to 24%.
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who officially kicked off his campaign Sunday, finished in third place with 9 percent.
“While still early in the nominating process, it looks like Mayor Pete is the candidate capturing voters’ imagination,” said Spencer Kimball, director of Emerson Polling. “The numbers had him at 0 percent in mid-February, 3 percent in March and now at 9 percent in April.”
Rounding out the Democratic field was former Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris with 8%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 7%, and former Housing and Urban Secretary Julian Castro and entrepreneur Andrew Yang at 3%.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York finished with 0%.
Biden, who in early April was accused by a number of women of inappropriate touching, has seen his support in the poll drop.
In February, he led Sanders by 27% to 17%.
They were tied at 26% in March.
In a head-to-head contest with President Trump, Biden, who has yet to formally announce a White House bid, would defeat the president by 53% to 47%.
Sanders would prevail over Trump by a 51%-to-48% margin.
O’Rourke would beat Trump by 2 percentage points, but the president would defeat Buttigieg by 2 percentage points.
The Emerson College Poll surveyed 914 registered voters between April 11-14.
It has a plus/minus 3.2-percentage-point margin of error.



